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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 58
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True law of the fast, with its attendant blessings, is set forth—Sabbath observance enjoined.
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Cry</span> aloud, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 34: 10.">spare</a> not, lift up thy <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Magnifying Callings within.">voice</a> like a <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/58/1c" mark="c" type="Q" title="HEB ram’s horn; Alma 29: 1 (1-2); D&C 33: 2; D&C 42: 6.">trumpet</a>, and <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/58/1d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Mission of.">shew</a> my people their <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/58/1e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Transgression.">transgression</a>, and the house of Jacob their sins.
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Yet they <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE They do all the rituals, but lack something yet.">seek</a> me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Ordinances.">ordinances</a> of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mal. 3: 14 (13-15); Alma 34: 28.">Wherefore</a> have we fasted, <i>say they,</i> and thou seest not?  <i>wherefore</i> have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?  Behold, in the day of your <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Fasting.">fast</a> ye find <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/58/3c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Pleasure.">pleasure</a>, and <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/58/3d" mark="d" type="D" title="OR inflict travail on others.">exact</a> all your labours.
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Behold, ye fast for <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strife.">strife</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Fasting without spiritual motivation only engenders discomfort and irritability.">debate</a>, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/58/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">fast</a> as <i>ye do this</i> day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen?  a day for a man to afflict his soul?  <i>is it</i> to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes <i>under him?</i>  wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?
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<i>Is</i> not this the fast that I have chosen?  to loose the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 1: 13; Mosiah 23: 12 (12-13); Mosiah 27: 29 (28-29).">bands</a> of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Liberty.">free</a>, and that ye break every yoke?
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<i>Is it </i>not to deal thy bread to the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Almsgiving.">hungry</a>, and that thou bring the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Poor; TG Welfare.">poor</a> that are cast out to thy house?  when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/58/7c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE thy brother, or relative.">thine</a> own flesh?
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&#182; Then shall thy <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Light.">light</a> break forth as the morning, and thine <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Health.">health</a> shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall be thy <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/58/8c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR rearguard.">rereward</a>.
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Then shalt thou <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 7: 7 (7-8); 3 Ne. 18: 20 (18-21); D&C 8: 1.">call</a>, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I <i>am.</i>  If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/9b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE pointing, in a gesture of scorn.">putting</a> forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
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And <i>if</i> thou draw out thy soul to the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 26.">hungry</a>, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/10b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR shine in the darkness.">rise</a> in obscurity, and thy darkness <i>be</i> as the noonday:
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Guidance, Divine.">guide</a> thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/58/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Drought.">drought</a>, and <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/58/11c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB strengthen.">make</a> fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/58/11d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Abundant Life.">spring</a> of water, whose waters fail not.
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And <i>they that shall be</i> of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
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&#182; If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, <i>from</i> doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbath.">sabbath</a> a delight, the holy of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking <i>thine own</i> words:
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Then shalt thou delight thyself in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and I will cause thee to ride upon the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/58/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 13 (7-14).">high</a> places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken <i>it.</i>
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